Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-480)

General introduction : a woman-centered perspective on Asian American history / Sucheta Mazumdar -- Poem by the wellside / Meena Alexander -- Okasan/Mother [poem] / Sakae S. Roberson -- A girl on the swing [poem] / Chungmi Kim -- The people here : a letter [poem] / Myrna Peña-Reyes -- Magic island [poem] / Cathy Song -- The world of our grandmothers / Connie Young Yu -- Voices from the past : why they came / Dorothy Cordova -- Korean immigrant women in early twentieth-century America / Sun Bin Yim -- The hardships of escape for Vietnamese women / Van Luu -- Shadow in stone [poem] / Janice Mirikitani -- We the exiled [poem] / Brenda Paik Sunoo -- War story / Elaine H. Kim -- The hopeland / K. Kam -- My mother's purple dress / Evelyn Lee and Gloria Oberst -- Nisei women and resettlement during World War II / Valerie Matsumoto -- And all the girls cried [poem] / Kathy Wong -- Chinatown talking story [poem] / Kitty Tsui -- Issei working women in Hawaii / Gail M. Nomura -- Ladies on the line : Punjabi cannery workers in central California / Marcelle Williams -- Behind unmarked doors : developments in the garment industry / Diane Yen-Mei Wong with Dennis Hayashi -- Women in the Silicon Valley / Rebecca Villones -- Asian American women in broadcasting / Felicia Lowe -- The gap between striving and achieving : the case of Asian American women / Deborah Woo -- Mother [poem] / Beheroze F. Shroff -- The loom / R.A. Sasaki -- The parrot's beak / Kartar Dhillon -- Waiting for Papa's return / Cecilia Manguerra Brainard -- Dreams of Manong Frankie / Virginia Cerenio -- Behind the shadow [poem] / Angela Lobo-Cobb -- Double doors [poem] / Jonny Sullivan Price -- Growing up Asian in America / Kesaya E. Noda -- Makapuu Bay / Wakako Yamauchi -- Broad shoulders / Nellie Wong -- You're short, besides! / Sucheng Chan -- Mestiza girlhood : interracial families in Chicago's Filipino American community since 1925 / Barbara M. Posadas -- Asian American lesbians : an emerging voice in the Asian American community / Pamela H. -- Factory girls [poem] / Chea Villanueva -- Mosquitoes in the main room / Meena Alexander -- Two deserts / Valerie Matsumoto -- Lotus blossoms don't bleed : images of Asian women / Renee E. Tajima -- The business of selling mail-order brides / Venny Villapando -- Domestic violence among Pacific Asians / Nilda Rimonte -- Matchmaking in the classifieds of the immigrant Indian press / Rashmi Luthra -- In remembrance [poem] / Janice Mirikitani -- For the poets of "Firetree" on the second anniversary of the death of Benigno Aquino [poem] / Valorie Bejarano -- Growing up, 1968-1985 / Juanita Tamayo Lott -- The feminist movement : where are all the Asian American women? / Esther Ngan-Ling Chow -- From homemaker to housing advocate : an interview with Mrs. Chang Jok Lee / Nancy Diao -- Dust and dishes : organizing workers / Yoichi Shimatsu and Patricia Lee -- Seeking a voice : South Asian women's groups in North America / Jyotsna Vaid -- Asian Pacific American women in mainstream politics / Judy Chu

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